Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steep rise does not continue long. The death rate goes on dropping, as better medical services become available; but the birth rate drops too, and the curve of population increase levels off. In some cases the population actually declines. Nearly every industrialized nation has passed through these stages. Industrial Britain's population rate curve resembles strikingly the curve of industrial Japan (see map). Britain has reached, and Japan has almost reached, a stable population level...
...Lieuts. Stewart M. Greenbaum and Gordon Mohr, Army observers in Sunchon, narrowly escaped death. The rebel sergeant assigned to kill them was an old friend, who had drunk beer with them in their billet many times. He took the two officers into a field, fired into the ground and then led them to the Presbyterian Mission of Dr. John Curtis Crane, who was barricaded in with his wife and four other missionaries...
...South Korea. After arrest and murder of police and loyal leaders, the rebels took over all communications, banks, schools and food distribution. They established a "People's Committee" as the new government. The "People's Committee" announced: "Our two-point program: 1) to oppose, to the death the killing of our brothers, and 2) to get the Americans out of here...
...Theater was conceived in an 18-hour café conversation between two fervent young men: Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who became its administrator, and Konstantin Stanislavsky, its guiding spirit. Stanislavsky (whose dressing room is kept as he left it at his death in 1938) was a brilliant actor, director and author. He taught a new, true-to-life style of acting that was widely imitated. He built a large repertory of classics, trained his players as a team with no stars...
...plague-in earlier times called also the Black Death or the Pestilence-has been one of the great wholesale man-killers of history. Ancient Greece and Rome were helpless against it. In the 14th Century it killed 25 million in Europe, probably another 25 million in China and India. Boccaccio used the plague in Florence as a backdrop and excuse for his Decameron; 300 years later Pepys noted in his Diary many a detail of London's famed plague of 1665. One or two cases a year still show...